Show I 1 TO sim RITTI DAYS it is 13 well ell knew known n that up to the I 1 bolding of tho the last hassion hassion of our territorial congress hall had provided for only forty chyi anra ion ion of such sessions sessions biennially but it does not appear to lo be con 0 a I 1 ly understood that since tho the disbo dissolution 1 ution ortho of alto assembly of 1881 co n gress ihas lias so BO changed ilia lawin in rela ti oil to territorial legislatures as to give utah as well oll as hir her sister territory ios los the power to prolong long hor her lion dial session to a period of biety dis days it is is argued however hoo vii by some home persons that utah is shut out froin any I 1 ad this change cli may give to tile territories for tho ilia reason that her Org organic ganio let act provides pio vidos that no session bession shall exceed the terin of forty I 1 lays dis and no subsequent art of con gross liis has ever repealed lepo this provision r ion reference however to the ilo ko ila bt atutoa of ilia united states second edition of 0 1878 section proves pi how bow basel bis elosa such nil ait mentis anent is Inthe the edition re ferrod to i it t ii imal ill bo be sien that on june 1871 congress Con grobs adopted tho following in in i relation elation to existing statutes tho the several territories I 1 UI all acts of congress prior to said first day cf december 1873 of which is IB embraced erab abod in in any section of s baid lid ro v ision siou ato hereby repealed mil antl tho section applicable thereto shrill bo be in in force in licit thereof tho root it will thus this lo ila soon boon that tho ilia organic act is 13 in in so BO fir list as it is is at by subsequent quent acts of con 1 gross now on oil thu tho of december Decombo i 1880 that clause 0 of f tho ilia organic act wherein thu ilia legislative assembly of tho the tt had boon been previously limited to a forty days da s sension seg torsion sion was cancelled by I 1 y in att ALA amending see bee I 1 tion 1852 of tho the revised statutes in in which tho ilia following follo winn substitute clause appears that section 1852 bo be and tho the it mo amo hereby ig is so amended as 89 to rend lend as follows section 1832 1852 the of tho clio legisla legislative tivo I 1 es of the territories ol of the united state shall bo 0 limited to sixty days di s da duration ration approved Appi oed dec 23 1880 11 thus it will tull bo be seen that by tile tho several set oral territories lern tones of tho the united states it was designed by con Congio gloss sg to extend to utah the samo same duration dinati cn of session as it gave to other T tern r tories tones in in this act at least no special legislation wits intended for or utah arty any moro more or loss than was intended for idaho tann or any other territory lern tory of tho the united statis states 1 I 1 I 1 tho the forty days term has hag boon ifould boand quite qinto impracticable for 6 all the legislative purposes soi anti and necessities ol of this territory Tern lor where in in conso bonso of her superiority in population 1 wealth and intire interests ats ON 01 or all her territories a greater necessity hai haa existed for a more longA boned p conod briod of legislative work than llian could ez desist klitin in arty any other territory A necessity for a longer torm term thin thim forty days da y has tor for several years past been I 1 seriously felt by out our respective octive logia leis jbf latiol bliga th thui granted fi ly by longer term form for the consideration bonsu and nud find adoption ot of much needed logis logia lation will prove of great Ione fit it to tin the interests int oresta ot of our prosperous territory every session BC bion for a number of years pars past has boon been oveal olvid irilli w ith business and many loany wants have in of oe tho ilia of tho tonni terms boon been ily wit tho the next nek assembly will doubtless talo tako ot of chii jiwat und and timely fiction on tho ilia part pa it of con ress and bo enabled onali led to perform poi furni anoro emotively i lian its predecessors could tile tho dulie impo soil upon it by reason of its ita improved opportunity |